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OMG! I still can't believe that it's almost the release of A CHARMING FATALITY!
Sometimes I have to pinch myself because it's the seventh novel, not including the two short stories, in the Magical Cures Mystery Series. Who knew that my little witch and her familiar would take the mystery world by storm?!

Please give a big ole southern howdo to welcome Nancy Jill Thames as our guest today! She's was gracious enough to sit down in one of my white rockers with a glass of ice cold sweet tea and answer a few questions. After all, she is known as the QUEEN OF AFTERNOON TEA ;) What’s the story behind the title of your book? After reading so many murder mysteries and watching
endless episodes of “Murder She Wrote,” I decided to write a mystery of my own
as a personal challenge. I had no idea of what writing a book was about, much
less how to publish. All I knew was how to tell a story. My husband and I were at a business retreat at the
Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay at the end September of 2001. This was immediately
after 911. With pen in hand, I wandered about the hotel taking
notes, and imagining what it would be like for an amateur sleuth to be staying
here. I created characters based on hotel staff, myself as the heroine, and my
garden club friends. After I got home, I added more characters…